Reviews
Wairunga
Fat Freddy's Drop have been favourites on the local scene for two decades while also building a considerable global following....
Reviewed by Seth Jordan in issue: November/2021
Oté Maloya: The Birth of Electric Maloya on Réunion Island 1975-1984
Now this is a compilation to be treasured. Maloya is the roots music of La Réunion, a diasporic African mix...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: August/2017
Etienne de la Sayette & The Wild Horses Orchestra
Etienne de la Sayette & The Wild Horses Orchestra
Yes, this music reeks of Parisian boulevards, with its playful accordion, singing flutes and vamping piano, but it also finds...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2025
Sleepless Nights
Sleepless Nights is a palatable musical aperitif for those uninitiated into Indian classical music, as well as being pleasant drive¬time...
Reviewed by Kulbir Natt in issue: July/2010
Tezeta
Hailu Mergia & the Walias Band
The Walias Band are a legendary group. On the frontline of the uniquely Ethiopian brand of jazz and soul during...
Reviewed by Jim Hickson in issue: July/2021
Liquid Love
Onom Agemo & the Disco Jumpers
Any album from a band with a name this bizarre is sure to be eclectic and Liquid Love is just...
Reviewed by Alex De Lacey in issue: November/2017
Aspaklaria
Mordechai Beck & the Aspaklaria Group
The word aspaklaria has contrasting definitions in the Jewish Talmud: one rabbi defines it as a mirror, while another claims...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: November/2018
Like Nightingales in the Spring
The north Albanian town of Shkodër, lying between lake and mountains, embraces multiple cultures and histories. While it was still...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: March/2023
The Original Sound of Cumbia
These two generous CDs of Colombian cumbia, remastered from 78s, 45s and 33rpm LPs, are glorious. The subtitle, The History...
Reviewed by Jan Fairley in issue: Jan/Feb/2012
If I Greet the Mountains
Giorgis Xylouris, Stelios Petrakis, Periklis Papapetropoulos
It’s a common cliché to compare music to landscape, but it seems particularly appropriate in the dry, rugged but heroic...
Reviewed by Simon Broughton in issue: Apr/May/2010
